Penalties from Google can be detrimental to your sales if you are removed from the search index. If you're having DNS issues, server connectivity issues, problems reaching the robots.txt file, or a laundry list of 404 errors, you can review them...
Google acknowledges this issue and yet again provides instruction in their guidelines to prevent any penalties. I believe several well-known companies are playing in this minefield, whether knowingly or not, and I'd venture to say we'll see more of...
When are penalties lifted? When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag? Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Feb.to 19, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from...
Google Buys DoubleClick, Announces Penalties for Non-Google Advertising, Johnon.com For example, you could make a paid link go through a redirect where the redirect url is robot'ed out using robots.txt.
It will alert you to 404 errors, page load slowness, some spam penalties, and integrates application for reinclusion, so it's now a wonderful one-stop shop. It took ten years from robots.txt to nofollow, and it wasn't very long after that that we...
It will alert you to 404 errors, page load slowness, some spam penalties, and integrates application for reinclusion, so it's now a wonderful one-stop shop. It took ten years from robots.txt to nofollow, and it wasn't very long after that that we...
In the second of a two-part article, we look at search engine penalties applied by Yahoo and MSN, and how webmasters can avoid them, or get them removed once sites are in the penalty box. Yahoo's search engine penalties
Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members goes into extensive detail about more than a dozen penalties...
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Actual search engine penalties Google search engine penalties
But this approach may trigger search engine spam penalties, if you're not careful with implementation. Or you can use the Robots Exclusion Protocol so we don't spider the dynamic site. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference...
But this approach may trigger search engine spam penalties, if you're not careful with implementation. A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members goes into more detail about situations that can inadvertently trigger spam...
Today's SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week's hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Having Trouble Believing In Crosslinking Penalties - Directory Wars - Local Search is just Hype - 20...
Having Trouble Believing In Crosslinking Penalties Search Engine Watch Forums Robots.txt Issue With Duplicate Content Cre8asite Forums How could I stop them indexing the trackback page without resorting to using anything other than robots.txt?
Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Having Trouble Believing In Crosslinking Penalties - Directory Wars - Local Search is just Hype - 20 Guidelines To Create Successful Landing Pages - Google as Web King, For Now.
I'd then tell Google using its report spam page (http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html) that you've done all this and ask if they would remove any penalties associated with your remaining site.
Understanding linking and link popularity is crucial for achieving high search engine rankings -- and for avoiding penalties for abusing the often-times unspoken rules. Also surveys the robots.txt files of other search engines (or lack of them) at...
Understanding linking and link popularity is crucial for achieving high search engine rankings -- and for avoiding penalties for abusing the often-times unspoken rules. Also surveys the robots.txt files of other search engines (or lack of them) at...
AltaVista may impose relevancy penalties or remove pages from its web index altogether, if the pages are found to be spamming the service. Spam penalties include The program can even be used to submit URLs to AltaVista from sites that block search...
Moreover, it would be especially hard for search engines to implement such penalties fairly. I've written before that the robots.txt file might be crucial in legal cases involving search engines interacting with web sites.
By the way, penalties have been assigned to Add URL submissions for some time, according to Inktomi. Inktomi also failed to make any mention of free Add URL penalties, when it rolled out its paid inclusion program last November.
